Yeah - but that loss was in Montevideo - wait till the Uruguayans get to the return leg in Sydney - I think they'll get a bit of a shock. [or so I hope ]

Yeah - when I was watching the Uruguay game on tele - I noticed there were a decent number of pure(or pure enough) whites like Forlan. However, there is also a number of players, in whom, you can detect drops of Amerindian blood.

If I were to be objective than most certainly the biggest candidate for new(old) champion is Brazil. However I think England has a really good team and if they catch a good form they might finally go to the end. Argentina is always somewhere in the middle and are also dangerous.

Italy has a good team, but I think they lack something....as always. Germany and France are way too weak as it is now to do anything. Spain and Holland have very good players but personally I doubt they can win it.

As for Poland and Ukraine they have no chance...although it would be nice realistically I don't know what are they even doing there on the list.

Personally I'd like Croatia to win it, but that is highly unrealistic....we had the chance of century in 1998.